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Defense
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VA said last month it is hiring nearly 2,000 mental health professionals and support staff. The agency will also continually assess staffing levels.
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A House panel has unveiled a $608 billion defense spending bill that restores some of the programs the Pentagon wanted to cut next year and provides nearly $1 billion for Israeli missile defense programs. The House Appropriations Committee released the bill on Monday that includes $519.2 billion for the fiscal 2013 base budget and $88.5 billion for the war in Afghanistan and other counterterrorism activities. That's $1.1 billion more than the current level and $3.1 billion more than President Barack Obama requested.
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Dr. Sonja Batten, deputy chief for specialty mental health, Veterans Affairs Department, discusses the VA's plans to hire 2,000 mental health professionals and support staff. Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.) talks about two bills aimed at reducing the number of duplicative government programs.
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Officials from the Defense Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau signed a joint statement of shared principles.
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The Navy is deploying two roving teams to combat what it sees as an serious threat: stress.
May 08, 2012 -
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The Armed Services committee Seapower chairman is tired of waiting for the Navy's ship building plan to come in.
May 08, 2012 -
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Congressmen introduce the Harry Lew Military Hazing Accountability and Prevention Act of 2012, a bill aimed at preventing hazing in the military services.
May 08, 2012 -
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The Air Force is re-branding its personnel services and human resources website. AFPERS will now be known as myPers and be modeled after the myPay model the Defense Department now uses.
May 07, 2012 -
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The Submarine Learning Center, at the Naval Submarine Base New London, has won a LEED silver award for being green. The center's headquarters uses geothermal heating a cooling systems and is built out of recycled building materials.
May 07, 2012 -
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As part of the annual Defense authorization bill, House lawmakers will take up a provision designed to let federal employees gain experience and share expertise while working temporarily in other agencies.
May 07, 2012 -
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The Pentagon is investigating the death of an Army officer while he was chatting with his wife via Skype recently. DoD says Capt. Bruce K. Clark, 43, Spencerport, N.Y., died May 1, in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. The military says the circumstances of his death are not immediately available. Clark was assigned to A Company, Troop Command, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas. Clark was a nurse who grew up in Michigan. Clark's body was returned Thursday to Dover Air Force Base.
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DISA has released a request for information that says the single network would replace three existing ones. By 2020, it says the wired and wireless network would provide bandwidth on demand where none is available now.
May 07, 2012 -
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is testing the effects of transcendental meditation on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Competition, reliance on commercial technology drove down prices for IT consolidation on ships, Navy official says. The service still is figuring out how to integrate CANES with its NGEN shore-based system. The RFP for NGEN is expected any day.
May 07, 2012
